Holistic Pathways - Meditation/Spirituality

Meditation helps people heal their mental state and offers relaxation and stress management. While all people need to deal with stress, people in recovery face more challenges in managing stress without succumbing to negative behaviors. Learning to meditate helps people control unwanted or intrusive thoughts while improving concentration. Defining and strengthening of the spirituality can help to assist in rehabilitation. Spiritual well-being allows a person to gain a sense of purpose and clarity in their life. The primary goal of developing a sense of inner calm, sometimes called detachment, enables meditation to fit well within the recovery process. This is because overcoming substance abuse disorders often involves a person establishing distance between themselves and their desire to use. For individuals in recovery, the struggle with temptations toward drugs or alcohol is inevitable. Mindfulness meditation is one way to gain awareness of these thoughts, accept them without feelings of guilt or shame and learn how to cope in healthier ways.

The Linehan Institute - Mindfulness skills have emerged as an important focus of several empirically supported treatments – DBT, mindfulness-based cognitive behavior therapy for depression, and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) are effective treatments that are all based in mindfulness. The roots of mindfulness practice are in the contemplative practices common to both eastern and western spiritual disciplines and to the emerging scientific knowledge about the benefits of “allowing” experiences rather than suppressing or avoiding them.​Mindfulness Meditation & Addiction - Causes for addiction and how mindfulness meditation can help with them. The challenge to altering addictions is the fear that you can’t change which can push you into denial and cause you to minimize the consequences of your unproductive behaviors. Whatever you discover about yourself and however painful your discovery, dramatic breakthroughs are always possible. Research on mindfulness meditation indicates that qualities we once thought immutable that form temperament and character can actually be altered significantly. By retraining your mind through mindfulness practice, you create new neural networks.

How Journaling Affects Your Health - A peaceful mind generates power and positive energy. By journaling, you will quiet your mind and strengthen your leadership thereby clearing a path for your family, friends, employees, colleagues and clients to follow. Journaling develops emotional resilience, the ability to quickly deliver results and the agility to navigate life’s changes.

Expressive writing and journaling are proven to be healing and transformative. I believe writing, stories and words nourish us and change the world. This is why my heartfelt mission is to support and inspire people around the world to go to the page. Expressive writing helps us rest in our own worth, tap into joy, increase clarity, open our hearts and changes lives.